MORAL AND RELIGIOUS. • Bine Bkr EvmirkfU." Children are eloquent teacher*. Many a lesson which has done oar hearts good have we learned from tlieir lisp ing lips. It was but the other day an other took root in memory. We were going to a picnic, and of course the lit tle ones had been in ecstacies for sev eral days. But the appointed morning broke forth no glad sunshine, no song of birds, no peal of mirth. Thero was every prospect of rain; ©Ton hope hi l her face and wopt. "Shan't wo go, mother'/" exclaimed * a child of fivo, with passionate empha sis. "If it clears off." '• Bnt when will it clear off?" " Oh, lock cat for the blue sky I" And ro he did, poor little fellow, but never a bit of blue sky gladdened bis eyes. "Well, I do not care, mother," said i be,when the tedious day had numbered all its hours; "if I haven't seen it, I know there is blue sky somewhere." Tho next morning there was blue sky such as only greats us ofter a storm. "There, mother, didn't I tell you so?" cried a joyous voico, "there is blue sky I" then the little head bowed for a moment in silent thought. " Mother," xclaimcd tho child, when he again looked up, " there must have been blue tky nil day yesterday, though 1 never caw a bit of it, 'cause you see there ain't no place where it could have gono to. God only covered it up with clouds, didn't He?" itriS.ioini Intelligences Tito Roman Catholic church iias sent, fifty missionaries to equatorial Africa. Tho Baplkt* have in tho State of Ohio 635 Sunday-schools, 8,730 officer* and teachers, and 53.284 scholar*, It is said that nearly half of the strength of the Presbyterian church in tho United States is in the States of Pennsylvania and Now York. The Church of England Zenana Mis sionary fsociety has just sent cut seven teen women missionaries to India, thir teen o' whom go out for the first time The Protestant Episcopal church in Oregon has sixteen recto: a, twenty-six churches and missions and 1,040 Sun day-school scholars. Tho communi cants cumber 785. Mr. Ingersoli, according to the Chris tian Union, knows no moro about the Christian religion than a boy would kuow of a chestnut from pricking his fiogyrs with tho burr. A novel baptism occurred at HI. Charles, 111. A lady, who was lame and unable to walk, was taken into tho . water in a bug-y. handed to the clergy man and properly immersed. The Wilmington iDel.) Femalo Bible society is sixty years old, having been organized on Di-oember 22, 1821, five after tlm formati >n of the Ameri can Biblo EoHt.tr. The subscrilrer* last year number d 227. Of tho 3.598 Presbyterian churchen on the roll of the general aembly 2,075 received no now memliera last year, wbilo 647 churches received only * one each and 550 two each. Tho total increase daring the past year over tho year before it said to be less than one half of ono per cent. Monster gatherings of the officers of the Salvation Army from all parts of England were recently lreld in Exeter hall, London. "General" Booth, iu addressing ono of the meetings, said they had cow 230 stations, 235 corps, 470 paid officers, and their income wan now 8250,000 a year, against 820,000 when the Work iiegan five years ago. An Extraordinary Funeral. There was an extraordinary character in Yorkshire at. tho beginning of the present century named Jemmy Hirst, of Bawcliffo, who was a well-known figure at Done-aster and York races. When Jemmy had made his fortune a* s tanner he rcaolvedto cut the tan yard and "aet up as a swell " for the remain der of his life. The first step be took . to that end was to procure a handsome I oaken coffin, furnished with a folding lid, which was let into the corner of his parlor like a cupboard and filled with provisions and liquor. When Jemmy Hirst died, rich and fall of years, ho left directions in bis will that he was, to be bnricd in the afore arid coffin, and that his body was to be carried to the grave by eight old maids who were to receive half a guinea apieuo for their services. The eight old maids, how over, were not fori booming, and right buxom widows were engaged at half a crown a head to eaial device to protect the machinery from shots fired at the exposed portion or front of tho b rat, her inventor asserts with confidence that aha is indaatract ible save by sunken torpedoes or boats of her own kind. A frigate's launch is larger than she yet tho frigate itself in a contest would be wholly at her mercy, for tho immense craft could not be handled quickly enough to get oat of the way of Ihe little death-dealer no more than can tho ponderous cle* phsnt escape from the insignifi cant little fly that so terribly annoys it. The armament of The De stroy or is a single grin situated just above the keelson, in the forward part of the boat, and its muzzle opens di rectly into the sea, being proton .ed from the rushing in of water when not in use by a permanent valvo hung by an elbow joint to the stem of the vovael, and which is opened or closed by a pis ton operated at tho breech of the gun. When the gun is to he fired this valve is raised, aud stands oat of the path of the projectile. How, when the valve is raised is the water prevented from raabing into the mnzclo of the gun ? is a query that natnrally arises. And the inventor provides against this emergen cy by tho ue of i seetionally con structed temporary valve of wood and rnbtrer cloth, which tightly fits the muz zle and is placed in the gun before the projectile is, and shattered to atoms when tho torpedo starts on its errand of de struction. " Water must rnsh in when the projectile leaves tho gun, and so sink the vowel," says the critic as he looks at the working model. Certainly it would bat for the fact that as soon as the projectile is fired oat Urn gunner closes hi* permanent valvaand shuts off the influx, which can only \n through the gnn ittolf What comes in ions out through the breech and drips through a grating into the bilge below, from which it is pumped ont by a steam siphon placed at the side of tho gun So far the explanation is satisfactory and it is made doubly so by the initial experiment, wWh showed that Ihe permanent valvo iwrfi be closed after the gua is fired, ami Ira; very little water be shipped, though there was s strong tide nmnin. toward i *.u. Oi tho.,rd.j A SENATOR'S ItEHINISCKNCES. K*-Hmnlor Hi*nilrlrk'ii ltrr|l<-< linn* of l'remlnml Mfniter. of Ike Inlinl Hmn-i NUMO. An ludianapoli* (Ind.) letter gives the particulars of an interview held with Ex-United States Senator Thomas A. Hendricks. Daring the interview Mr. Hendricks gave interesting reminis cences of some of the prominont men whom ho had met in the Senate. He said: ' Many senators whom I met at that time were men of marked qualities* Mr. Collamor, of Vermont, was one of the moat ingeniona and plausible debaters I have ever hoard. Ho was then a sena tor, greatly respected, and exerciacd a decided influence ; In his character and policy ho was decidedly conservative. Mr. Anthony, of Rhode Island, who is yet in the Senate, was then in the prime of his manhood, courteous and elegant in his manner, never giving offense, always devoted to his party, and very sncceasfnlly taking charge ol its interest. I met with no man in the senate whoso qualities interested me more than Mr. Buckalcw, of Pennsylvania. Etc was modest and retiring, hnt when called out by duty, a debater of rare ability, philosophic in his habits of thought, not combative, punctilious, holding a strong position and exer cising much influence in the Bcnate. During his term he prepared a very in teresting work, outside of his sena torial labors, on the snOjectof "Minor ity or Proportional Representation." It is the ablest work on that subject that has como to my knowledge. Mr. Buck alcw was singularly retiring, modest and democratic in his habits. His colleague, Mr. Oowan, was always listened to with interest. He was a dashing debater, and canto into any controversy whoa it was at tho highest, and wasablo to maintain himself again t much odds. Ho ca.ne into the Benate a Republican, bat became very rostless under party discipline. One of the most inter* sting characters' in the Senate of that day was Garrett Davis He was a war Democrat from Kentucky. I think be was the most fearless debater I over heard—not al ways the most considerate for the ranee he advocated. Mr. Doolittle, of Wisconsin, war js-r -haps the finest orator in the Seuate. Daring the first part of th - war he w~* a conservative Republican. By his con victions of right, and by extreme hos tility on the part of other* to his poli'i cal position, he was carried into the ranks of the Democratic part;, and be came one of tbo strongest advocates of the Democratic cause. As a friend he was sincere, as an sssociato charming. Mr. Fossenden was then at the height of hi* very distinguished career. I think Maine has never been so ably re presented in the Senate. As a debater he Was very remarkable— quietly, atU-n- I tivoly, ho listen-sl to those opposed to him nntil he appreciated exactly the field of the fight; then, without note, book or authority, ho made his reply so c'ieiitly that he con Id not be misunder stood, and I never knew him to leave a point unanswered. I do not mean that hi* answer wa* always aaccesslnl, hnt it was always able. He wa* one of tbo great men of his party, and held great influence nntil be fonnd himself com pelled to separato from it in bis vote ngainst the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. Governor Gfimos represented the State of lowa. I never saw a purer man in public life. The influence of his aide and excellent alministraticn as governor cf lowa did ranch to estab lish the State permanently as a Repub lican State. He, too, separated from h..s party on the impeachme nt question. John P. Hale, of Maine, wan very much observed at the time I went into the Senate and very much spoken of. He was a brilliant man, but not a student, as I thought, and he had come to repeating himself. Mr. Henderson was a young senator from Missouri, a goodtfawyer, a strong debater, and very sincere in his convic* tions. He also separated from the Re publican party on the impeachment question. Reverdy Johnson was the ablest lawyer in the Senate. 1 have never heard any one who so readily, and with out special preparation, announced his legal projiositions and supported them by exact reference to the authorities. For a part of the time Henry 8. Lar,o was my colleague. He deserves to be held in high estimation by his country men. Passionate in his politics, but sincere and truthful, with few superiors as an orator. John Sherman was not thoa frequent in his addresses to the Senate, but al ways the same, well prepared, and left bis views distinctly impressed upon the mind of tho body. The most distinguished member of the Senate was Mr. Buruner. Mat.y of his speeches wore politic*! essays rather than debates. lie was a man of great learning, ospsbleof exhaustive research, thoroughly in tamed, never politic, never avoided a question to attorn mo dato friend or foe, not even to rave his party; he stepped at onee to the front edge of question and required fctblei '- • V,.., ' and more timid ]>artisans to follow. I have said, and I snp]>oao I j* correct, that at his death he left more of his sen timents embodied in the laws of the oonntry than any other man. Mr. Trnmbnll, of Illinois, was in many respects a distinguished man. As a de bater ho was very able, as a lawyer very eminent. Ho was chairman of the ju diciary committee, and reported many of the most important bills touching the relations of tho races and the recon struction of the States. He, too, left the Ropnblican party upon the impeach ment of Andrew Johnson. Mr. McDongal, of California; was a brilliant and attractive man, although not a man of much influence in tho body. Borne of his speeches made upon tho spur of the occasion without pro par ition were as remarkable as yon find in tho best collection of literary gem*. If I had a (ilnbe I wonld like to refer yon to ono or two exquisite apccimcns. I remember one occasion when tbo hill was pending in tho Henate upon the President's veto of tho admission of Colorado. If all the sena tors were present it was known that tho bill could not pass. Senator Wado called tho bill np (he being chair man of tbo committee on Territories at the time) late in the evening; some 1 '.enators were not present - Mr. Dick son, senator from Connecticut, a sup porter of tho veto, it was announced in the Senate, was sick, and that he could not safely attend. Mr. Wado expressed tho thought that if Providence had favored the measure for the admis sion of that state, it was projrer for i's friends to take advantage of that circumstance, and so ho insisted that tho hill ahonld be taken up and passed npon. Just then MeD&ugul came into t ho Senate, and without taking his seat, bnt standing by his chair, he replied so completely, so jiowerfaHy, in a few sentences, as to settle tho fate of tho hill for that Light. Alter Mc- Dongal took his seat Mr. Wade could g*t lint ono or two to second him in his effort* to take the bill np. I cannot give yon McDongal's speech. It can hardly be repeated. Hi* illustration o hi* al'boirance of the sentiment he took from Pcrian mythology—tho spirit of good and the spirit of evil—the spirit of good that brought to mankind all bl< l -inga—the spirit of evil that poured up :i the race its many curses; and the sentiment he condemned he compared to the lAttcr, bnt in sncb U-autiful, strong and classic language, and in every respect so forcible, that the pro position to take the bill from the table received no support. Governor Morton entered the Senate after the middle of my term. He soon took rank as one of the ablest leader* of hi* party. IJo was extreme in his ex prosiions of political hostility -strength and esrnestnas* were tho characteristics of his speeches. A ( aptirc In thr South Seas. Australia is ringing with the Logi Boero, lately rescued from H nth Sea savage*. Captain i lin, who explored the Solomon group, ! discovered a white man naked among | the saragra at Bonka Island, acd count ! <-d seventy war canoes, each containing forty armed ravages. After consider able stratagem he got alongside a canoe containing the white man, who was ulti mately, with some difficulty and danger, ransomed for throe American hatchets. Ho was an Italian named Lugi Boero, and had been for Qfteen months a cap tive with the savages. When he found ho was about to bo liberated he embraced Captain Mclaughlin in an agony of joy. Boero, with Ave mates, left Liki harbor to go on a crniso in an open boat. Three days afterward they rirnck a reef, the boat was broken, and they fell into the hands of the natives. Be got separated from bis companions, whom ho only once afterward saw. All were treated worso tban dogs. They were the slaves of every one, and made to do horrible work, always treated with tbo greatest ill-usage and obliged to vrcdUpaked in the son, with their skin jef fit g off. Captain McLaughlin, after reacning Lugi, sailed for Boughan ville and other inlands, where he heard of another white man in captivity, but was unsuccessful in rescuing him. It is supposed that this unfortunate Italian is the only survivor of the six. . bleeping Apart. " More quarrels arise between broth ers, between sisters, between hired girls, between clerks in stores, between hired men, between hatbands and wires, owing to oleolrical changes through their systems by lodging to gether night after night under the same bedclothes, than by any other disturb ing cause. Them is nothing that will so derange the nervous force, as to lis alt night in bed with another person who is soibent in nervous force. The alu rber will go to sloop and rest all night, while the eliminator will be tum bling and tossing, restless and nervous, and wake up in the morning fretful, peevish, fault-Hading and discouraged. No two persons, no matter who thay are, should habitually sleep together. Om will thrive and the other will iora. XbU is the Uw."i of Life." TOI'ICH OF THE OAT. Now York city bun appropriated 91,000,000 for street cleaning in 1882. Hor police will cost 80,300,680, the fire department call* for $1,404,850, the ftchools will have 83,500,000, the de partment of charities and correction oan he run for $1,812,500 and the de partment of pnhlie works will com mand $2,389,900. The city of Klingenberg, in Lower Franoonia in Germany, not oDly im poses no municipal tax, but every voter receives an annual dividend from the city treasury of a nana ranging from $22.50 to $25. The city recently cele brated the Sedan anniversary by giving every citizen fifty cents, with fifty cents extra to every soldier of the war with Franco. Tho New York ffuur say* that "Sid ney Dillon, ono of Jay Gould's partners, is about to bnild the costliest and most ornate private residence on this conti. uent. It is to be erectc-d at the corner of Fifth avenue and Bevonty-sixth street, and the hense, with the grounds surrounding it, will cover thirteen full city lot*, four of which will be on Fifth avenne." A pathway only eighteen inches wide in cut into the aide of Hlato mountain, near Lcadrille, at a height, over an almost perpendicular chasm, of 1,500 feet. Few men who one it have strong enough nerves to walk upright, but in stinctively crouch or "coon it," an the local saying is. The tool hardiness of James Zero in attempting the passage* when the ground was a glare of ice may, therefore, be imagined. He slipped, fell, and was dashed to pieces on the frozen ground more than a quar ter of a mile below. Tho lung of Ashantoe, like his neigh bor, the despot of Dahomey, is an adept at human sacrifices, but the latest ex ploit attributed to him, of killing two hundred yonng girls in order to get their blood for mixing mortar in the re pair of a building, is almost ]>ast belief. In civilized countries, monarch*, to be sure, rend tens of thousands of yonng men to die nthe battlefield inVrrder to build np and cement their power with warm blood, but the Istrlwrities of the ruler of Oootsassieareof a different sort. The eagerness for inflicting violent death is, however, snch a passion with the Ashantees, as their wars with the Fantees show, that probably this latect atrocity on the Gold Coast doc# not pro duce much emotion there. The I tali in newspapers hare fast in crease! in tiamb.!? of Ute years, and for a half-century show a progress which in n minor,; has kept p3e with the other countries of Europe. Pre. ▼ions to 1797 thra was not oae jonrn 1 in tho entire cuaatry, fn IKI9 there wore only 1%, and of these 119 were JpubTUli <1 in It ima. Now ther,- are 1.4 *>4, of which 149 arc dailies, bat Home no longer has the lot 1. It is Milan, with 216, that comes flrat. Home Mhen follows with 147, Naples with 114, Flofsace with 110, Genoa with flfty aix, and Veniee with thirty-two. Rome has eighteen daily papers, N oples six teen, Palermo thirteen. Mil si twelve, Florence nine, Turin six, and Venice five. On an average, there 8, UOO read era for each Italian newspaper. The New York posicfflcs has a man j whose business for the past twenty fire years has been to decipher lad al dreasea. no has collected directions of the various cities of the country, and is said to know all the streets and a great number of the residences of New York city. Some time ago a foreign letter came directed to " Patrick Mihoney first house in America." Tbo letter was from Ireland, and after the usual inqui ries, the clerk learned the time that the vessel bearing the letter arrived. As an experiment, he placed it in the hands of a carrier, who was instructed to deliver it at the end of ——— pier. Tho house was a sailors' boarding-house, and strange m it may aeem. Patrick Msho ney was found. When the letter was opened the only contents w,< found to be a draf'. for $4OO. Galcatta vu recently thr vn into a state of intense excitement by the ar rival of the great Moulri H4s Ahmed, who is credited with the possession of minuralons power# enabling him to cure all diseases which flesa is heir to. His process is very simple. Too peo ple assemble with earthen pots of water; be passes among them and breathes npon the water, and forthwith it is im pregnated with caratire properties. Enormous crowds follow the whererer He goes, and not only Uin doosaio Mohammedans, hot ovei Chris tians of all classes join the ranks. He i in easy oircn instances, and exacts no foe or reward of any kind for his sor rier; hi# pontons] character is shore repr moh, an i his i.ifl ixaon is al ways j nsod iij fivor of Uw an 1 ordor. Ho is s Mohammedan preacher and a great authority upon of Mo'ammedan fltitrttl In reference to the reoent great do that a Washington genlaman well known in Southern circled a*; of the Confederate (nod that the Confederate disbursing officers had altogc'-her a very large nam on hand, which they were too hoaeat to appropriate and pocket, mod if they retained it, the United States government, it u feared, could noise it. 80 they placed it in tire hands of Honorable Englishmen ae trustees, to hold for a term of years, and then to dispose of it as seemed most just At the head of these, it was understood, was Lord Haughton. The Bank of England is probably only the deposito ry and agent of the trustee*. The ironda lamed approximated $800,000,000, Probably not one-third are now in ex istence. This money in England was the prodnct of cotton, etc., bought and paid for with bonds. Tho editor of Nature says that " many Arctic authorities are of opinion that the. days of great and expensive national Polar expeditions are passed, and that the money thus spent wonld le put to much better use by Wing devoted to the car rying on of a continuous series of ob servations. At various points around the Arctic arm observations will be es tablished as near ae practicable to the pole, where a continuous series of ob servations will be taken, according |p a common prearranged plan. Theae ob servations will be connected with mete orology in all its dej-artments, with ter restrial magnetism, the anrora borealis> atmospheric electricity, the movements of the ice, biology, combined with geo graphical exploration where practicable. Aits r a year or two of snrh observations we may then be able to compare and co ordinate Polar conditions with those which prevail in r< gions further south. A vast array of data must necotsarily be accumulated that cannot but be turned to valuable account by science." What is known in California M "the debris question" has finally got into the i courts, and injunctions and counter in* ! junctions are being exchanged, to the manifest profit of tbe lawyers. The mines of the hill country bordering on tbe Sacramento valley are worked by washing out vast quantities of sand, clay anl gravel The debris chokes the streams flowing into the Sacramen to. The country is frequently inun dated, and extensive tracts of arable land are covered with silt, to tbe de struction of all agriculture. The farm ers have procured an order issued from one of the courts directing the sheriff of Nevada county to shut off the water of certain mines, the owners of which had been previously enjoined from prosecuting their work. Another court lias issued a temporary injunction re straining tbe sheriff from shutting off the water. At this paint the matter rests, and it is difficult to see how any solution of the question can be arrived at so long as tbe prosecution of the two industries appear to be incompati ble with each other. A Jim!ca Breakfast, Strang® aa it rair wei at first-right, everybody in the West Indies eats very Urge meals The climate is so hot that yon must take food freely to make tip for losses, and the appetite has to be stimnUted by a great variety of dishes, as well as by the oo pious use of those very insidious capsicums and the still more delicious little red sad yellow bird peppers. A few of these tempting irsita arc placed in the salt cellar at every meal, and with the brig lit tropical flow ; ers which invariably garnish the Üble in pretty specimen vases they give a gen eral air of pleasant, (esthetic refinement j to the whole arrangement, i Breakfast is a'really solid and tub sUntial repast, usually put off until I0:30or 11, the pang*of pressing hunger being stilled before the early morning canter by a enp of coffee in the bed room. With it comes sometimes a cas ; sava cake, one of the best Jamaican in i stitnlions, made by the negro villagers ; from the roughly t craped meal of the arrowroot plant. This meal is rolled into a thin poate and then baked hard and dry into ronnd cakes, about the thickness of a Scotch oatmeal bannock, but tunch more delicate in taste. Thus refreshed, one manages to get over the time till 11 o'clock breakfast, and then t he table io a hospitable planter's house positively groans under the weight of its viand*. Most of them are fearfully and wonderfully made, I mnst allow, but their variety is certainly astonishing. Tea, ooffoe, claret, and, above all, rum and water; flab, fresh and salt, and twice laid; meats, hot and cold, fresh and salt; pepper pot, and eggs in aban donee. As a rule, the meal consists of two or three courses, ending off with curried chickens or cray-fish, over which a eonple of soft-boiled eggs are broken on each plate. " Bombay ducks," those queer little Irdlan dried fish from the *J Indus, sometimes accompany it cm the epicure's tabic. They are baked quite g hard in the oven, and then broken up t > vat with the curry. To finish all, mors marmalade home made or im p-wied, to the square mile, is probably nro in the West Indies tssn in any nher part of the British dominions. - Pffrrwtfa,